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No Real Party at All

I am known for being loyal, but even with that personage, I still have my limits. One of them, as a card-carrying Republican, is the out-and-out mayhem that some members of Congress have had to tolerate over how they voted on the health care bill.

Some of my fellow noodnick-like Americans have decided to send death threats or hurl bricks through the windows of some Democratic headquarters. A note attached to one brick thrown through the window of the Democratic Party offices in Rochester, New York read “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice,” as if hurling a rock through a window isn’t extreme enough.

Adding to the problem for any normal Republicans out there are Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck who have been encouraging their followers to express their views using violence. My message to them is knock it off, fellows. Cut it out. Besides, no one is going to see them acting in ways that could get them sent up the river, even if a camera crew was going to record their every move.

It is fellow Americans like these and the brick throwers and head bashers that make the party look like the one where they rode through town in white robes and burnt crosses on people’s lawns. The health care reform is still in its infancy and can still be tweaked before it breaks the back of the economy once and for all. But all that mayhem doesn’t make the party look like much of a party at all.

I have been to many Tea Party events, Hannity at The Reagan Library, etc. I even ran for city council in CD 11 a huge City of Los Angeles council dist with 250,000 souls in it. I have never seen any promotion of violence at Republican or Tea party events. The very interesting part of all the above is not seeing Hannity but rather talking to people in the crowd and on the shuttle buses. These are regular Americans of all ages, even children are brought by parents. The public schools will not teach the US Constitution. Parents must do this. The Tea Party is not a “party” at all. It is similar to the original Tea Party of the 1700s where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest “taxation without representation.” This too will not be taught in most W LA public schools or East LA public schools. Your kids WILL be taught “America is Evil”, America tortures, Bush is Hitler etc. Obama bows before foreign leaders. Obama obviously hates Israel, our ally. In the 1930s and 1940 many Americans said “OH Hitler is only killing Jews” we shouldn’t get involved. This is exactly how Obama is acting, by his words and deeds. Go to any Tea party event and just talk to anyone there. Then decide.